A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week. 
Drupal News
Drupal 7 Beta 1 Released - Yes, at long last.
Great Posts This Week
Spaces_Node Demo Video - I haven't been all that interested in Spaces, but after seeing this, I'm going to have to give it a try. Impressive.
Open Data and Beautiful Maps - A nice video tutorial on using Views for making maps.
Interesting New Modules
Etherpad Integration - Collaborate in an online WYSIWYG in real time. There's no code for this module online yet. I can't wait to try it out.
Stickers - This looks interesting. Add images to your site that sit on top of the template, using jQuery. You can drag them around to place them in "edit" mode.
Feeds Excel - Import and parser Excel documents with the Feeds module.